Title: Strong Medicine
Artist: William Villalongo
Medium: Cut velour paper on matte board
This particular work reminded me of the Value-Added Portraits Project we did in class. The artist, William Villalongo, used leaves, tree branches, and other material to create a face and a bird. Looking at the composition in person for a while it made me feel that there is movement because of the hands being above and waving them in the air. I thought it was a cartoonish figure making a silly face, however, the artist describes the figure’s raised hands evoking the Black Live Matter movement.
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